Motivational Quotes

Art

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

- Motherwell, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.